Frances Boyd Calhoun

She authored the children's book Miss Minerva and William Green Hill (1909), which has been a publishing success and has gone through more than fifty printed editions.

[4] In childhood she lived in Warrenton, North Carolina, for two years, before moving in 1880 with her family to Covington, Tennessee.

[1][3] Her father William Townes Boyd was a newspaper publisher and worked for The Covington Leader, and she wrote for his paper.

[3] For seven years she taught at the local Covington public schools, before she quit due to chronic illness.

[4] She authored Miss Minerva and William Green Hill (1909), a children's book published by Reilly and Britton (now McGraw-Hill) that became a classic of Southern fiction.